By far one of the most incredible things I've ever read. In any genre, in any medium. I have now lost even more respect for plebs and automatons who don't read or can't understand poetry. This is what the English language was designed to do.
Why did you like it?
>>25457342Greatest condensation of religious epiphany and philosophical allegory I've ever seen in verse. That's the best nutshell summary a pleb like me is capable of.
>>25457339>PostDid you read Ash Wednesday yet?
>>25457390Yes. It's great, of course, but I don't think it's in the same league as this.
>lit doesn't read poetry
>>25457339What are some Eliot essential apart from Waste Land, Four Quartets and Alfred Prufrock?
>>25458974The aforementioned Ash Wednesday, and The Hollow Men are also essentials.
>>25458974>>25458984And the quatrain poems. And the plays. And "Portrait of a Lady" (Leavis' favourite). Just read all of them honestly and then go back and reread whatever you liked & whatever you want to focus on. Four Quartets and Wasteland are probably the same length as the other poems put together.
